Was it necessary to issue tickets to church-goers?

I just can’t get over what I witnessed on Saturday. My family and I came out of 4 p.m. mass and walked across the street to the Muni-meter parking lot.

We found four parishioners with $95 tickets on their cars; three of them didn’t purchase a ticket and one had a ticket which was clearly with in the time frame and the summons was issued by mistake.

My car didn’t get a ticket because I listened to my wife and bought time. That accounts for all five cars that were in the whole lot. My problem is, yes three of them were illegally parked and deserved a ticket. Should they have gotten one? Hell no. I just couldn’t help wondering if that lot was across the street from a different place of worship — let’s say one where violence, bigotry and hate is preached as much as what was going on inside the church on Saturday, peace, love, forgiveness etc. — would any tickets been given?